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Market Briefing       |      13 August 2018

Your weekly brief on current markets 

Market Data
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FTSE 100             7,650.04     -0.22%

Dow Jones          25,270.32   -0.17%

S&P 500              2,831.58     -0.06%

Gold                    1,203.50      -1.27%

Brent Crude       72.26           -0.76%

GBP/EUR            1.1187         -0.02%

GBP/USD            1.2761         +0.02%

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Source: All above data sourced from Bloomberg 13 August 2018.

Musk arouses strong reactions

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Tesla, the US electric car maker, is a true ‘marmite’ stock – investors either love it or hate it. The ‘haters’ have made Tesla the biggest ‘short’ in the US at close to 30% of its free float value (c$15bn).

 

But when a contrite Elon Musk announced continued losses but success in producing 5,000 Model 3s a week, the share price jumped by 17%, sending the short sellers scurrying.

 

Within days the real-life Tony Stark unveiled Tesla’s multi-billion dollar China ambitions before basking in the news that the Saudi sovereign wealth fund had invested $2bn in Tesla. When he tweeted on Tuesday of his plans to take Tesla private again, the shares jumped another 11% on the day.

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